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Today's poem is "Sawing the Mesquite"

from Twelve Mile Review

Geraldine Connolly is the author of four poetry collections, including Province of Fire and Aileron. She received two N.E.A. creative writing fellowships, a Maryland Arts Council fellowship, and the W.B. Yeats Society of New York Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, and Shenandoah. It has been featured on The Writers Almanac and anthologized in Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High School Students and The Sonoran Desert:A Literary Field Guide. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Other poems by Geraldine Connolly in Verse Daily:
May 9, 2018:   "The Hardware of the Brain" "You might suddenly be in the middle..."
January 12, 2010:   "Chinook" "Come January, let winter unweave..."
July 4, 2005:   "Mourner" "I love how you push aside the light's invasion..."
September 14, 2004:  "Regrets" "Out of their secret places..."

Books by Geraldine Connolly:

Other poems on the web by Geraldine Connolly:
"Ode to Everything"
"The Summer I Was Sixteen"
Five poems
"The Summer I Was Sixteen"
"Legacy"
"New House"
"Dear Tomato"
"Lydia"
"Face Lift"

Geraldine Connolly's Website.

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October 28, 2021:   "Trust" by Marjorie Maddox

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